The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-03-17

| sufren ieT the mau VINO committed JhaJ
| crime"
The cAiettA'n who did the Grim stepped
out from the ranks and said!
~ am not afraid 20 die, but have a
wife and four chill lreu, and have q father
aged and q mother aged, whom support
by hunting, and sorrow to leave them
helpless"
Just az he said that his old father from
behind stepped out and said:
| Vie shall not die; | take his place.
am old and we'll stricken in years. | can
do no good. might as well die. Nv daYs
are almost over. He can net b5 spar ed.
Take me-"
And they accepted the sacrifice. Won
derF1l Sacrificed you say, but not so won
derfJi as that found in the Gospel, for
we deserved to die, ave, we were sen
fenced when Christ, not worn out with
years, but In flush Of hi' youth said:
"Save that man from going down to the
pitt am tho ransom. Put his burdens on
my shoulders. Let his stripes fall on nv
back. Take nv heart for his heart Let
me die that he may live"
Shall it be told in Heaven to-day that,
Notwithstanding all those wounds, aud all
that biooi, and all th7se tears, and all
that agony. you woull not accept hint
Was Il for crimes that had done,
| He groancd upon the trccs
| Amazing pity grace unknown,
And love beyond degree.
There is no woe amid the surroundings
OF that scene tina: i'm o'eSscs mo more
than that of his own mother. You need
not point her ont 10 me. can se3 by the
sorrow, tho anguish, the wo,, by the up
thrown hands. That all means m other.
Oh" you say, "why didn'tshe 90 down
10 the foot Of the hill and sitwith her back
to the scenei l, WAS too horrible for her
TO look upon"
Do you not know when child is In
anguish or trouble it always makes a
heroine OF a motherl Take her away, you
say, from the cross You can not drag
her away. She will keep on looking; as
| her son b,eathcs she will stand there
looking. Oh, what scene 1t was for
| tehder. hearted mother TO look uponi
How gladly she woall have sprung to his
relief. 1t was her son. Her son. How
| gladly she would have clambered up on the
cross and hung there herself IL her son
| could have been relieved. Hny7 trength-
ening she would have been u Christ
| II she m ght have COM close by him, and
| soothed hunt o., there WAS good deal
In what the little sick chill said upon
whom surgical operation Of a painful
| nature p,ust he oarfornal Tho doctor
SAID:
UThat child won't live throuoh this
onaration unless vo,, en,,uraoe him. Won
go In and get his consent"
| The father told him all the doctor said.
and added:
SNOW John. will Won y, tbropoh with
II; will you consent to it,
He looked vo.v nalo and he tn ,uoht a
minpte and said.
uYes father. II Won vii, hold INV hand
wiIlr
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